..For those of you who still use Myspace or check this blog, I wanted to repost a blog entry that was written a few weeks back so that we can promote our new band:
UPDATE: We are quite happy with our recording and are now focused on looking for a label to help us with all the production issues such as duplication and distribution. If you can help or if you know of a label that might be interested, please e-mail HERE. Thank you and stay tuned.
We will be recording our forthcoming split with Greg at Earhammer Studios at the end of the month. We will be sharing the split with Chico's Amarok. Stay tuned for more information.
Check out some of these links:..
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Titled: The Burial Tide; Originally Posted: 7/7/2010 2:47:00 PM
Hello folks,
For those of you who check this Myspace page, we wanted to update you all on the progress of our new band, The Burial Tide. We currently are in the process of creating a Myspace page for said band and will have all the pertinent information for this project there; for now, I will try to update this page until we fully integrate over to the new page. And as always, thank you for everyone's continued support and patience.
Best,
Jay
For those of you who check this Myspace page, we wanted to update you all on the progress of our new band, The Burial Tide. We currently are in the process of creating a Myspace page for said band and will have all the pertinent information for this project there; for now, I will try to update this page until we fully integrate over to the new page. And as always, thank you for everyone's continued support and patience.
Best,
Jay
Titled: The End of the Line; Originally Posted: 1/29/2010 3:42:00 PM
After 3 years, we have decided to disband. We'd like to thank anyone and everyone who supported us along the way.
Thank you,
Jay
Matt
Marcelo
and Jason
Titled: MetalReview.com Review; Originally Posted: 10/16/2009 8:09:00 AM
Apterran Records offers up 30-minutes of sludge riddled post-metal with this split from a pair of American bands. Nanda Devi kicks off the proceedings with the expansive, eighteen minute “Lifelong Migration,” which thankfully avoids the oversaturated brand of melody used in typical post-metal, instead offering sparse and punishing meditations more in line with Neurosis and the short-lived and terribly underrated Abandon. Sure the tremolo guitar lines that dominate the first half of the composition are indeed plenty melodic, but in a much more truly melancholy way, as opposed to the either ebullient or shoegazing fodder often heard in this style. Rather than soaring through lush atmospherics Nanda Devi haunt more terrestrial, dark human territories, and this song is defined by its punishing nature delivered via viscous riffing, heavy handed percussive rhythms, and unrelenting mood. True to genre form, the song ebbs and flows to and from loud and aggressive turns, but even at its lowest points in this cycle maintains a menacing tone.
San Francisco’s Skin Horse’s “109" clocks in at nearly fourteen minutes. The most interesting thing about its inclusion is its nontraditional and disjointed trajectory. Beginning like a standard and passable if uninspiring post-metal track, the song then suddenly shifts into tumbling riffs and insistent, propulsive drumming. But at the midway point the band grinds gears and slows into a lurching sludge, and when vocals are finally introduced they’re layers of pained howls and gruff bellows, temporarily erasing any last vestiges of post-metal. Thing is, Skin Horse doesn’t sit still for long, and as soon it feels like the track has finally gotten where it was going all along, the band shifts yet again, into sparse melody and swirling atmosphere a la Neurosis. Normally this kind of disjointed song development would be a negative, but in this case it at least raises an eyebrow as a contrast to what has become a very dry and predictable genre.
While failing to shake me out of my post-metal malaise, this split does offer something just a little different than the usual fare. Both bands do enough to warrant a look, although I preferred Nanda Devi’s style more than Skin Horse’s cut and paste attack. - See more at: http://lastrit.es/reviews/5235/nanda-devi---skin-horse-split.aspx?expand=true#sthash.TR7ZZoVy.dpuf
You can view the review HERE
San Francisco’s Skin Horse’s “109" clocks in at nearly fourteen minutes. The most interesting thing about its inclusion is its nontraditional and disjointed trajectory. Beginning like a standard and passable if uninspiring post-metal track, the song then suddenly shifts into tumbling riffs and insistent, propulsive drumming. But at the midway point the band grinds gears and slows into a lurching sludge, and when vocals are finally introduced they’re layers of pained howls and gruff bellows, temporarily erasing any last vestiges of post-metal. Thing is, Skin Horse doesn’t sit still for long, and as soon it feels like the track has finally gotten where it was going all along, the band shifts yet again, into sparse melody and swirling atmosphere a la Neurosis. Normally this kind of disjointed song development would be a negative, but in this case it at least raises an eyebrow as a contrast to what has become a very dry and predictable genre.
While failing to shake me out of my post-metal malaise, this split does offer something just a little different than the usual fare. Both bands do enough to warrant a look, although I preferred Nanda Devi’s style more than Skin Horse’s cut and paste attack. - See more at: http://lastrit.es/reviews/5235/nanda-devi---skin-horse-split.aspx?expand=true#sthash.TR7ZZoVy.dpuf
You can view the review HERE
Titled: Sludge Swamp Review; Originally Posted: 10/16/2009 7:52:00 AM
Experimental Post Metal/Sludge Galore....Nanda Devi and Skin Horse pull of the sound without falling back on the sometimes "lazy" atmospheric repetitive melody, instead these two bands pack these songs with enough ideas, atmospherics, noise, sludge and dope sounds that require repeated listens. I personally like the Skin Horse side better, but if it was any body besides Skin Horse, I would probably like the Nanda Devi side better. (In case you haven't noticed, I really dig these two bands.) Two songs clocking in at just over 30 minutes, and never boring.Â
Black Metal/Sludge/Ambient/Post Metal where can you go wrong?
View the review HERE
Black Metal/Sludge/Ambient/Post Metal where can you go wrong?
View the review HERE
Titled: Shapeless Zine Review; Originally Posted: 7/29/2009 11:47:00 PM
Shapeless Zine has reviewed our split with the great Nanda Devi as well as our self-titled album. If you can read Italian, please check out the reviews.
Thank you,
Skin-Hizzle
Thank you,
Skin-Hizzle
Titled: Where to Buy Our Music - Links and Such; Originally Posted: 6/25/2009 11:25:00 AM
For physical CDs:
Aquarius Records carries both the Nanda Devi split as well as our self-titled album
Cavity Records carries our split with Nanda Devi
For downloads:
self-titled
iTunes
Amazon
eMusic
Rhapsody
split
iTunes
Amazon
eMusic
Rhapsody
As always, we thank you for your support!
Aquarius Records carries both the Nanda Devi split as well as our self-titled album
Cavity Records carries our split with Nanda Devi
For downloads:
self-titled
iTunes
Amazon
eMusic
Rhapsody
split
iTunes
Amazon
eMusic
Rhapsody
As always, we thank you for your support!
Titled: Apterran Recordings: Nanda Devi/Skin Horse Split; Originally Posted: 3/12/2009 4:13:00 PM
As the subject title suggest, our forthcoming split with Nanda Devi will be out in the very near future; I can attest to the epic proportions of their contribution...suffice to say their track has it's own gravitational pull!
Those who are interested in buying a copy of the split can do so while Nanda Devi is on the road, via our respective Myspace profiles, or though the selected distributions we are working with.
Also note that Nanda has their newest full-length, The Fifth Season for sale; I personally think this album will be talked about for years to come - see Metal Review for the album's review.
Check out Apterran Recordings for more information
Titled: Thrasher Interview; Originally Posted: 12/7/2008 9:54:00 AM
Check out January's issue of Thrasher, page 192 for the interview.
January 2009, Issue 341
Special thanks to Jeremy and Ryan for making this happen!
Titled: OLDER REVIEWS; Originally Posted: 10/24/2008 4:57:00 AM
Skin Horse at Aquarius Records, September 06, 2008
Category: Music
Local folks may have seen these guys tearing up stages around town. Although maybe tearing up isn't precisely what these guys do. They're much more of a brooding behemoth. But they're much more than that. Almost confusingly so (but in a good way!) Anyway, Skin Horse are a trio who traffic in long stretches of plodding doom, mathy jangle, and epic post rock, laced with haunting atmospherics and deep black ambience.
This 3 song cd-r is their debut, and each of the three tracks is totally different, and in some cases almost sound like different bands, but somehow, the tracks do manage to fit together, a little disjointedly, but still strangely cohesive.
The opener begins with a sheet of guitar noise under static and strange voices, soaring harmonics, and rumbling drones, when the band do finally kick in, it's a sort of slowcore, dronedoom hybrid. Plodding and downtuned and heavy, but weirdly melodic, the guitars heavy and abstract, the drums a caveman pound, vocals a harsh shriek, Khanate fans will be all over this, as will all ultradoomlords.
But only maybe until the second track, which begins with dark minor key guitar jangle, which erupts into some awesomely nineties sounding mathrock, all clean guitars, and convoluted arrangements, before locking into a spiraling freakout, all tribal rhythms, and squealing feedback, a stuttering riff and swirls of FX, launching immediately into the final track, another blast of angular clean guitar mathrock, but structure like doom, so the chords ring out, the drums crash, but there's tons of space, some super abstract arrangements, killer dynamics, all wrapped around a super intense main minor key melody, the kind of stuff we could listen to forever, before again, locking into an extended outro, a cool woozy chugging groove, that eventually gives way to a brief stretch of moody Slintish drift to finish off.
We've been inundated with post rock metal bands, or post metal or whatever, but Skin Horse are as far as we can remember the first band to fuse math rock with serious doom metal, and we're definitely up for hearing more.
Packaged in hand sewn, hand screened red or black pouches, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, each one hand numbered.
Silent Ballet Review, AUGUST 14TH, 2008
Category: Music
Score: 6/10
Skin Horse's self-titled debut is a rather interesting beast – an album that gets stronger and better as it progresses. This young Bay Area three-piece is uncertain how best to describe themselves; on their website, they define themselves as "somewhere between the genres of Doom, Drone, Sludge, Metal and Experimental." Fortunately, they structure their album in a cohesive fashion, beginning with the sludge and drone and working their way up to the metal. Listening straight through, one can easily imagine some primordial creature working its way up from the morass, placing stubby feet on the muddy earth and slowly crawling forward, tongue flicking, eyes blinking away the algae. In The Velveteen Rabbit, the Skin Horse is the character that tells the rabbit the facts of life: that becoming real will take time, and pain: "By the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you become loose in the joints and very shabby." While this certainly doesn't sound very pleasant, and implies entropy, the true meaning is that of evolution, of progressing beyond the physical plane. Skin Horse attempts to tell this story in song, replete with jagged edges.
"Act I: Confined to Shadows" begins with hiss, feedback and drone, elements that swirl excitedly, waiting to coalesce. Incoherent voices mingle in the static. A guitar begins to warm up. Slowly, the voices become more distinguishable, the guitar begins to strike recognizable chords, a drum establishes a dirge-like beat. Just shy of the nine-minute mark, a male erupts in scream-song. In the twelfth minute, a quicker melody breaks out, a call-and-response between the guitar and the twinned bass and drums. By the end of this opening track, I was intrigued, but disappointed that the song had taken so long to develop.
"Act II: Ecdysis," a more well-rounded track, continues the album's evolutionary theme. Ecdysis is the molting of an exoskeleton, which is discarded so that a newer, stronger exoskeleton can grow (but of course you knew that, right?). This track begins in the same way that the former track ended, with call-and-response, and then cascades into a series of ascendant chords and drum rolls, as if foreshadowing a Japanese monster's first destructive steps. This time, the guttural vocals take nine and a half minutes to rumble through the speakers. As the track gets longer, it gets meaner and darker. The overall effect is one of gathering momentum, which will be let loose in the concluding track, "Act III: Peel Back the Sky."
"Peel Back the Sky" (which actually begins 20 seconds before the end of "Ecdysis;" downloaders be warned) is the album's most fully-formed song, beginning with accessible riffs and crunches and establishing a melody within the first minute. This melody stops after every few bars and then repeats with different intonations, at a higher tempo, gathering energy as it builds until collapsing in an implosion of drums. At this point the sludge and doom return, bringing us full circle. Again the disembodied voices, again the screaming, again the build; but then, sadly, a long fade-out, which leaves us, like Romeo, a bit unsatisfied.
Skin Horse's sound still needs to be tightened: certain passages tend to meander or slip into repetitiveness, and could do with a nip-and-tuck. But overall, this is a worthy demo. All three tracks are available for preview on the band's MySpace page, which takes the trepidation out of ordering, and those who order the hard copy will be rewarded with a hand-sewn canvas case.
-Richard Allen
Maximum Rock n Roll, JUNE 23RD, 2008
Category: Music
The Bay Area's Skin Horse is named after a character in the Velveteen Rabbit but this isn't music for little children. Most would call this doom though of the experimental variety, and it's only heavy occasionally. I hear some Mindrot and Morgion elements on this three-song album that stretches out to 50 minutes in length. Not particularly my cup of tea but a lot of Bay Area heads dig this sound. You can hear the whole album on their Myspace site:
www.myspace.com/saidtheskinhorse
They're in search of a label for this Billy Anderson produced release.
Written by Dave
Maximum Rock n Roll
Issue 302, July 2008
LOWCARD REVIEW, MAY 25TH, 2008
Category: Music
As the story goes, producer Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis) heard these guys play a show and said, "I'm recording you." Fast-forward one year and a rough mix of the yet to be released, yet to be named CD lands in my inbox. The timing is perfect: I'm laid up in my apartment with an injury, drinking red wine, popping Vicoden, constipated, and imagining my life circling the drain. I hit play, and am confronted with the soundtrack to my demise. Heavy, atmospheric, abstract, and sparse - seven minutes into "Act One: Confined to Shadows" I realize I've been lulled into a meditative state. Before I can ask the Horse the question, "Non more black?" she detunes, retards, and sends me swirling deeper into the abyss. Ambient Metal? Find you own classification for the freshman masterpiece.
Written by Hamid
Lowcard, Issue 23 05/08
http://lowcardmag.com/
http://www.myspace.com/lowcardmagazine
Category: Music
Local folks may have seen these guys tearing up stages around town. Although maybe tearing up isn't precisely what these guys do. They're much more of a brooding behemoth. But they're much more than that. Almost confusingly so (but in a good way!) Anyway, Skin Horse are a trio who traffic in long stretches of plodding doom, mathy jangle, and epic post rock, laced with haunting atmospherics and deep black ambience.
This 3 song cd-r is their debut, and each of the three tracks is totally different, and in some cases almost sound like different bands, but somehow, the tracks do manage to fit together, a little disjointedly, but still strangely cohesive.
The opener begins with a sheet of guitar noise under static and strange voices, soaring harmonics, and rumbling drones, when the band do finally kick in, it's a sort of slowcore, dronedoom hybrid. Plodding and downtuned and heavy, but weirdly melodic, the guitars heavy and abstract, the drums a caveman pound, vocals a harsh shriek, Khanate fans will be all over this, as will all ultradoomlords.
But only maybe until the second track, which begins with dark minor key guitar jangle, which erupts into some awesomely nineties sounding mathrock, all clean guitars, and convoluted arrangements, before locking into a spiraling freakout, all tribal rhythms, and squealing feedback, a stuttering riff and swirls of FX, launching immediately into the final track, another blast of angular clean guitar mathrock, but structure like doom, so the chords ring out, the drums crash, but there's tons of space, some super abstract arrangements, killer dynamics, all wrapped around a super intense main minor key melody, the kind of stuff we could listen to forever, before again, locking into an extended outro, a cool woozy chugging groove, that eventually gives way to a brief stretch of moody Slintish drift to finish off.
We've been inundated with post rock metal bands, or post metal or whatever, but Skin Horse are as far as we can remember the first band to fuse math rock with serious doom metal, and we're definitely up for hearing more.
Packaged in hand sewn, hand screened red or black pouches, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, each one hand numbered.
Silent Ballet Review, AUGUST 14TH, 2008
Category: Music
Score: 6/10
Skin Horse's self-titled debut is a rather interesting beast – an album that gets stronger and better as it progresses. This young Bay Area three-piece is uncertain how best to describe themselves; on their website, they define themselves as "somewhere between the genres of Doom, Drone, Sludge, Metal and Experimental." Fortunately, they structure their album in a cohesive fashion, beginning with the sludge and drone and working their way up to the metal. Listening straight through, one can easily imagine some primordial creature working its way up from the morass, placing stubby feet on the muddy earth and slowly crawling forward, tongue flicking, eyes blinking away the algae. In The Velveteen Rabbit, the Skin Horse is the character that tells the rabbit the facts of life: that becoming real will take time, and pain: "By the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you become loose in the joints and very shabby." While this certainly doesn't sound very pleasant, and implies entropy, the true meaning is that of evolution, of progressing beyond the physical plane. Skin Horse attempts to tell this story in song, replete with jagged edges.
"Act I: Confined to Shadows" begins with hiss, feedback and drone, elements that swirl excitedly, waiting to coalesce. Incoherent voices mingle in the static. A guitar begins to warm up. Slowly, the voices become more distinguishable, the guitar begins to strike recognizable chords, a drum establishes a dirge-like beat. Just shy of the nine-minute mark, a male erupts in scream-song. In the twelfth minute, a quicker melody breaks out, a call-and-response between the guitar and the twinned bass and drums. By the end of this opening track, I was intrigued, but disappointed that the song had taken so long to develop.
"Act II: Ecdysis," a more well-rounded track, continues the album's evolutionary theme. Ecdysis is the molting of an exoskeleton, which is discarded so that a newer, stronger exoskeleton can grow (but of course you knew that, right?). This track begins in the same way that the former track ended, with call-and-response, and then cascades into a series of ascendant chords and drum rolls, as if foreshadowing a Japanese monster's first destructive steps. This time, the guttural vocals take nine and a half minutes to rumble through the speakers. As the track gets longer, it gets meaner and darker. The overall effect is one of gathering momentum, which will be let loose in the concluding track, "Act III: Peel Back the Sky."
"Peel Back the Sky" (which actually begins 20 seconds before the end of "Ecdysis;" downloaders be warned) is the album's most fully-formed song, beginning with accessible riffs and crunches and establishing a melody within the first minute. This melody stops after every few bars and then repeats with different intonations, at a higher tempo, gathering energy as it builds until collapsing in an implosion of drums. At this point the sludge and doom return, bringing us full circle. Again the disembodied voices, again the screaming, again the build; but then, sadly, a long fade-out, which leaves us, like Romeo, a bit unsatisfied.
Skin Horse's sound still needs to be tightened: certain passages tend to meander or slip into repetitiveness, and could do with a nip-and-tuck. But overall, this is a worthy demo. All three tracks are available for preview on the band's MySpace page, which takes the trepidation out of ordering, and those who order the hard copy will be rewarded with a hand-sewn canvas case.
-Richard Allen
Maximum Rock n Roll, JUNE 23RD, 2008
Category: Music
The Bay Area's Skin Horse is named after a character in the Velveteen Rabbit but this isn't music for little children. Most would call this doom though of the experimental variety, and it's only heavy occasionally. I hear some Mindrot and Morgion elements on this three-song album that stretches out to 50 minutes in length. Not particularly my cup of tea but a lot of Bay Area heads dig this sound. You can hear the whole album on their Myspace site:
www.myspace.com/saidtheskinhorse
They're in search of a label for this Billy Anderson produced release.
Written by Dave
Maximum Rock n Roll
Issue 302, July 2008
LOWCARD REVIEW, MAY 25TH, 2008
Category: Music
As the story goes, producer Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis) heard these guys play a show and said, "I'm recording you." Fast-forward one year and a rough mix of the yet to be released, yet to be named CD lands in my inbox. The timing is perfect: I'm laid up in my apartment with an injury, drinking red wine, popping Vicoden, constipated, and imagining my life circling the drain. I hit play, and am confronted with the soundtrack to my demise. Heavy, atmospheric, abstract, and sparse - seven minutes into "Act One: Confined to Shadows" I realize I've been lulled into a meditative state. Before I can ask the Horse the question, "Non more black?" she detunes, retards, and sends me swirling deeper into the abyss. Ambient Metal? Find you own classification for the freshman masterpiece.
Written by Hamid
Lowcard, Issue 23 05/08
http://lowcardmag.com/
http://www.myspace.com/lowcardmagazine
Titled: Taken From the Portland Mercury; Originally Posted: 10/7/2008 4:11:00 AM
THE SABBATH: ANON REMORA, ORDER OF THE GASH, SKIN HORSE, DJ NATE C
(Rotture, 315 SE 3rd) Sunday nights at Rotture offer the city's best sampling of the United States' burgeoning heavy metal underground. More than that, these events are synonymous with lovable riffs and a welcoming environment, with a DJ who is as likely to play Rush as he is to play Kult. This week, the Bay Area's Skin Horse is certain to satiate Portland's big appetite for doom, though fans of Neurosis and handcrafted industrial should find crusty scraps on which to gnaw. The trio's three-song demo begins with an extended track recalling Malefic's tortured, coffin-confined collaboration with Sunn O))), flushing its vocals down Ministry plumbing and eventually bobbing in instrumental soup—not unlike the post-everything waters where Seattle's Lesbian swims. It's heavy metal. It covers most of the world. MM
LINK
(Rotture, 315 SE 3rd) Sunday nights at Rotture offer the city's best sampling of the United States' burgeoning heavy metal underground. More than that, these events are synonymous with lovable riffs and a welcoming environment, with a DJ who is as likely to play Rush as he is to play Kult. This week, the Bay Area's Skin Horse is certain to satiate Portland's big appetite for doom, though fans of Neurosis and handcrafted industrial should find crusty scraps on which to gnaw. The trio's three-song demo begins with an extended track recalling Malefic's tortured, coffin-confined collaboration with Sunn O))), flushing its vocals down Ministry plumbing and eventually bobbing in instrumental soup—not unlike the post-everything waters where Seattle's Lesbian swims. It's heavy metal. It covers most of the world. MM
LINK
Titled: Skin Horse Merch, HOT DAMN!; Originally Posted: 7/26/2008 7:46:00 AM
Shirts and CDs for sale, hit us up if you want something.
Titled: New Album Uploaded; Billy Anderson; Sharkbite Studios; Originally Posted: 3/27/2008 11:18:00 AM
We just uploaded our finished album to Myspace, so take a listen. Also, we are currently sending it out to various labels with the hopes of releasing it this year; stay tuned for more information regarding these changes.
The record was produced and engine-eared by Billy Anderson
Recorded at Sharkbite Studios
For those of you who want to know more, please check out the links below for more information:
Billy’s Myspace
Billy’s work site
Sharkbite Studios’ Myspace page
The record was produced and engine-eared by Billy Anderson
Recorded at Sharkbite Studios
For those of you who want to know more, please check out the links below for more information:
Billy’s Myspace
Billy’s work site
Sharkbite Studios’ Myspace page
Titled: Droning Earth Volume 6; Originally Posted: 2/6/2008 4:27:00 PM
We're on Droning Earth's Volume 6 comp., you can find it
HERE.
HERE.
Titled: Changes Coming; Originally Posted: 2/4/2008 1:14:00 PM
After more then a year, founding member and our good friend Jason will be moving to Kansas City, MO. If you like what you hear on our Myspace, people interested in starting a music project should contact him HERE. Matt and I will be sad to see him go but of course we wish him and his family the best of luck!
This also brings us to another important message, with Jason's help, we found a great replacement guitarist who will be taking over Jason's duties (that word always remind me of pooh), his name is Marcelo. We like to officially welcome Marcelo to the band.
There are a lot of great things happening in 2008 - We will (hopefully) be releasing our album and hitting the studio again for a follow up so stay tuned.
This also brings us to another important message, with Jason's help, we found a great replacement guitarist who will be taking over Jason's duties (that word always remind me of pooh), his name is Marcelo. We like to officially welcome Marcelo to the band.
There are a lot of great things happening in 2008 - We will (hopefully) be releasing our album and hitting the studio again for a follow up so stay tuned.
Titled: Downtune Despondency; Originally Posted: 1/17/2008 8:27:00 AM
We just wanted to let those of you who read our blog know that we are now a featured artist on Downtune Despondency's Myspace page. As anyone can guess we are excited about this, you should be too!
Please go and visit Downtune Despondency's profile here and check out some other amazing bands.
Cheers,
Skin Horse
P.S. Our featured profile on Downtune Despondency can be found HERE. Please drop by and check it out then hit the other bands, there are some amazing sounds there. Thank you
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